War of Worlds takes $101m in US
BBC News - 6 hours ago War of the Worlds enjoyed high Independence Day weekend box office takings, but could not beat the record set by Spider-Man 2 last year. Tom Cruise's sci-fi thriller took $101.7m (£57.7m) in its first five days in the US, distributor Paramount said.
UK's ITV rises on Time Warner talk
CNN/Money - 36 minutes ago LONDON (Reuters) - Shares of British broadcaster ITV rose as much as 8 percent on renewed takeover talk, while the cost of insuring its debt against default jumped by a third on concerns about how any bid would be financed, dealers said.
'They know nothing about poverty'
Globe and Mail - 3 hours ago By STEPHANIE NOLEN. JOHANNESBURG — It was all quite nice, Andrew Mwaipunga thought: an unusually warm winter day, a peaceful gathering of thousands of people in the heart of Johannesburg, a city only recently reclaimed from vicious urban warfare.
US close to climate change concessions
Guardian Unlimited - 55 minutes ago The United States is edging towards important concessions on climate change at this week's G8 summit, it has been revealed. US President George Bush is now ready to concede that climate change has scientific